The number of “cleavage-sparing mastectomies” carried out by disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson is “inflated”, he has told an inquest for one of his patients – as he claimed it was not a new operation he performed but simply an “adaptation”.
Giving evidence via video link from prison on Thursday, Paterson, 66, told Birmingham and Solihull Coroner’s Court at Elaine Turbill’s inquest that he stopped performing his version of a mastectomy as soon as he was informed by hospital chiefs in 2007 that more research was needed.
